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{No.Model.) J. PRENTIGE.

COMBINED TOY AND CIGAR CUTTER.

Patented Jan, 5, 1886 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

, JOHN PRENTICE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED TOY AND CIGAR-CUTTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 333,669, dated January 5, 1886.

Application filed January 2, 1885. Serial No. l51,728. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN PRENTIOE, of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Combined Toy and Cigar- Gutter, of which the following is a specification.

In my improved toy I make use of a pusher,

a hand upon an arbor, and a rubber cylinder upon the arbor, against which the pusher acts, and a spring and dial. XVhen the pusher is moved in one direction, the same is brought into contact with the rubber cylinder and partially turns the hand. WVhen the pusher is liberated, the hand is moved in the other direction and set spinning around as the pusher clears the rubber cylinder. Games can be played and amusement obtained by guessing and otherwise as to where the hand will stop upon the dial. I connect with the pusher a cigar-cutter, and to make the toy more attractive I use a figure of a man with the dial on his body, an open mouth, into which the cigar is thrust to be cut, and a movable hat, that is pushed down over his eyes when the aforesaid pusher is actuated.

In the annexed drawings, Figure l is an elevation of the toy. Fig. 2 is a side view, partially in section; and Fig. 3 is a rear View with the case open.

The toy figure is preferably upon a block or cigar-box, A. The feet I) support the dial 0, around which are numbers, preferably placed irregularly, as shown. The head of the figure of the cigar is at the mouth d of the figure, so that when the hat is pressed down the bracket-piece and cutter are carried with it, cutting off the cigar-tip. A part of the flange fis inclined, so that when the cigar-tip falls on the same it slides off sidewise. The spring n around the bar {1 rests at its lower end upon the flange f, and its upper end acts against the bracket-piece L, to raise the same, the cutter, and the hat-piece, and restore the parts to their normal condition. The case p is removable and rests against the flanges, and it is secured by the screw t. The hand or point-er 1' is upon an arbor, s, that passes through the dial, and at the back end this arbor is pivoted in the ease Around the arbor is a roller or cylinder, t, preferably of rubber. The pusher-rod 9 passes down near this roller. It is not in contact with the same in the normal condition, and the roller and hand can be spun around freely. hen pushed down, a portion of this rod, or a projection on it, comes into contact with the roller t and moves the same, and as the parts are moved suddenly upward by the spring n the hand is rotated and continues to spin around after the pusher-rod separates from the roller, and it stops by chance at a point which cannot be predetermined or known; hence there is a chance and a pleasure in using this toy in games and for any other purpose.

I claim as my invention The combination, with the toy figure provided with an orifice to receive cigar-tips, of

a pusher at the top thereof, carrying a cigarcutter, a central dial, an arbor provided with a roller and a hand, a rod attached to the pusher, and a spring, asset forth.

Signed by me this 29th day of December, A. D. 1884..

JOHN PRENTIGE.

\Vitnesses:

GEo. T. PINGKNEY, HAROLD SERRELL, 

